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The article Marco Börries has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this biography of a living person will be deleted after seven days unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.
If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the ((prod blp/dated)) tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within seven days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. TopCipher (talk) 16:37, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
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Template:End of season has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 05:17, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
Template:Management consulting has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 06:08, 17 June 2017 (UTC)
You think Belphegor's prime is a stub? Man, I sure don't - I think of the stub tag as being there to let us easily find articles that don't have the minimum information to make sense to a casual reader. That article is well beyond that point, I'd say. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 00:51, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
My search 'touch unix' (without the quotes) on a popular internet search engine brought up the article touch (Unix) top. I am long accustomed to skipping past the wikipedia editorial exhortation box to an article's content, as the eye runs past spam in an email inbox, but when I returned, having slaked my thirst for knowledge, to read this editorial box, I was at first somewhat stunned that there was even a template to accuse an article of being "written like a manual or guidebook", and then somewhat quizzical that this would be considered a bad thing when discussing a Unix command. I did think that it was one of the best things I'd ever read about a Unix command. I have now read the relevant paragraph on "what Wikipedia is not" about this policy, and reviewing the edit history, it looks like the non-standard examples have been revised. So how about taking that template off the top of the page? Each one removed increases the force of all of the others… LaFolleCycliste 05:42, 20 August 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by LaFolleCycliste (talk • contribs)
I started a discussion about pluralizing "ABS" as "ABSs"--that is, "anti-lock braking systemS" the same way as we pluralize "ATM" as "ATMs," etc. Will you please show this other editor why that's correct with me?
Thanks if so, 174.23.105.242 (talk) 22:24, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
Hey, Chris, thanks for your help over there. Well, regushee decided to act like a baby about it by calling us "trolls" and not providing any concrete support for his "it sounds silly" argument, so I wrote up a reply calling him out on that. Do you think we should report him for incivility? As well, do you have any ideas of other editors who would be reasonable enough to see how obviously stupid "anti-lock braking system systems" is just like you and I know it is?
Thanks, Mike Christenen, 174.23.141.137 (talk) 19:58, 2 September 2017 (UTC) (until my dynamic address changes again).
Hey, Chris, a troll went in and reverted anti-lock braking system again. But I suspect that if I go in and revert his vandalism, he'll just war with me. Will you please go in and revert that back to the non-redundant version that we agreed on? 75.162.244.184 (talk) 06:18, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
You added three tags to the article, and while I can see where you are coming from. I don't see how they can be resolved, so you just end up with permanent tags, and the tags would apply equaly to all article on wikipedia on the subject of intruction sets. This is one of the less technical written with more details on use instead of just listings of instructions. Carewolf (talk) 20:24, 3 September 2017 (UTC)
I'm not sure what kind of entertainment you are expecting from an article on a processor instruction set. AVX-512 follows the structure of similar articles on SSE, SSE3/SSSE3 and AVX/AVX2, as well as XOP/FMA/F16C which all have a brief description of new instruction. AVX-512 additionally has a list of supported mnemonics from previous instruction sets that can be encoded with the EVEX prefix - this is important because desktop CPUs will have extensions that essentially update earlier SSE/FMA/MMX instructions. SSE2 article on the other hand is simply useless - no description of new instructions, their encoding scheme, no some real-world examples, just some general boring blah-blah that could be found elsewhere, i.e. SIMD and Instruction set architecture. Dmitry (talk•contibs) 21:02, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
Hi, Thumperward!
I have some troubles with lack of documentation of an old deleted template, Fix bunching. At the time of the deletion discussion, you seemed to be one of the people with most knowledge about it and its alternatives. I do understand that it may be harder for you to remember the details now. However, if you do or could refresh your memory, this could be a great help.
My problem is that Template:FixBunching once upon a time was copied to a Swedish variant, which is still present: sv:Mall:FixBunching. This template is used on some 80 articles, mainly about historical wars. It has no sensible categorisation, no iw-linking, and almost nothing on its talk page. It has no accompanying documentation; for the first years, there was a link to the documentation for Template:FixBunching, but some time after that was deleted, so was the link from our template, with no substitute. Just looking at how it is employed, I suspect that it was used to fix enlignment of several infobox contents, as well as providing hide/expand wrappings for some of them. Am I right?
I'd like either to document and classify our template, replace it, or delete it. I succeeded to find the deletion discussion, and see that you there refers to a talk item with the most fantastic title Template talk:Fix bunching#Universal fix has been discovered!. This sounds a bit like having found that elusive "last 8software) bug":-) but even with a more limited and context bound interpretation, I would with interest have followed the link, if the discussion had not been deleted together with the template. I suspect from the little of what you wrote that I've been able to find that indeed the enwiki template was made superfluous, either by some general software fix, or by some simple material rearrangement. I also suspect that the same would be true of its svwiki clone. However, these are just guesses.
I'd like some explanation about what the template did, and of what that ultimate fix did, and how to eliminate the template without loss of simplicity or functionality. Alternatively, if I got a copy of the deleted documentation, I might translate this to a Swedish documentation, and find an appropriate context for our template. However, if it really nowadays is unnecessary, elimination would be the optimal solution.
Do you think you can help me? JoergenB (talk) 15:52, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
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as discussed in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T28449 - that's really all I know about it. Maybe applying this to sv-wp will fix the issue? Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 10:26, 11 September 2017 (UTC)Hello, I hope you don't mind but I have reverted edits made by the IP sock of a banned user. No offense intended. Cheers! Aloha27 talk 12:15, 12 September 2017 (UTC)
The article Follow Follow (fanzine) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
Non-notable fanzine, no reliable or third party sources, fails WP:GNG.
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Hi Thumperward!
Thank you so much for your incredible and generous contributions to Wikipedia for so many years! I am currently working with a student of mine (User:Claradm) to improve the Open-source governance article and get the flag removed that I believe you placed all the way back in 2011. Do you think your flag is still relevant today, given all the edits that others have made? If so, what can we do to fix it?
Thanks so much for your help! David (talk) 01:01, 14 March 2018 (UTC)
P.S. I love the Netherlands! You're so lucky to live in such a progressive nation.
Template:Administrative law in the People's Republic of China has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Störm (talk) 11:29, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi! The ((cnote)) templates has been nominated for merging with the ((efn))/((notelist)) family of templates. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. E to the Pi times i (talk | contribs) 06:29, 31 March 2018 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article List of fictional assimilating races is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of fictional assimilating races until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 18:28, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
Hi!
Can you clarify, what you mean? My change lists 8 internal sources about engineering and OOP and 1 external publication from OOPSLA 1986. Did you read it? The whole ECS article is "original research" created by the Martin, by the way.
Thanks, Loyso. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Loyso b (talk • contribs) 00:07, 18 October 2018 (UTC)
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